Mention the Lord of the Rings just one more time and I'll more than likely kill you.

Well, for once I am going to mention it ...

Does anyone else think that the Micromail is just a parody of Mithril in Lord of the Rings?

That's certainly what I thought.

Mithril is nothing to do with mail as such - it's an extremely rare metal, far more costly than gold (in a number of ways besides price) and has a variety of uses, some of them magical. The only reason it's associated with mail is that Bilbo gave a child-elf's mailshirt to Frodo and this was how he survived the killer spear stab in Moria (from the troll in the film, an orc in the book).

Tolkien was an author not an ism. His writings are fictional and not about civilised society, rather on how they became civilised in a parellel timeline vaguely based on north-western European myth.